Canis being the closest neighbor to the M-0 Galaxy in terms of distance to Pluribus. it could also be reached by HALD explorers . The expedition left a string of repeater buoys behind making GalNet Contact possible. Almost at the same time the Ancient Gate Network was acticvated and a Gate Connection between M-0 and Canis Major discovered..

Since then only one sentient civilization has been discovered in that satellite dwarf. (The Vatitas ) The ruins of a more advances species was found on planet Sonderbar .

The Vatitas reported of a horrible invader species arriving in regular intervals from a second gate (CMD Gate 2 ). It turned out this gate connected to a galaxy outside the local group, the Pinwheel galaxy . That is home to the Ence who invaded the Small Magellanic Cloud . Howerver this gate connected to a Pinwheel galaxy region clear across from the region where the Ence came.